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Grandmother completes primary school - at 100

YOU'RE never too old to learn: Mexican grandmother Manuela Hernandez has finally graduated from primary school - at the age of 100.

Born in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca in June 1913, the year before World War One began, she left primary school after just a year to help her poor family with household chores.

Hernandez resumed her studies in October at age 99 at the recommendation of a grandchild, and she was handed her diploma at a celebration on Saturday.

"I liked school very much, but I could not continue studying," she told Uno TV. "By the next year I could already wash and iron."

Hernandez will continue her studies in secondary school.

More than half of Oaxaca residents older than 15 have not completed primary education, the second-highest rate in the country behind neighboring Chiapas, officials said.



 

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